The Republican journal., 1887-05-05
The Woman's Column.

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ness. FAITH,
April 18th, 1887.
The Woman's Column.
Talk about women being Eighty! Look
at bank cashiers.
Five ladies were elected to the city
council in Syracuse, Kansas.
Mrs. Logan, it is said, has written a
novel describing Washington society.
Miss Marietta Holly ("Josiah Aliens
Wife, has written new book, "Saman-
tina ut Saratoga"
Women arc employed on the staff of
more than two hundred newspapers in
the United States.
Twenty five Y ung women have lust
graduated from the Woman's Medical
College of Chicago.
A man in Lima, Peru. has left $500
GOO to establish a school in New York for
the education of poor girls.
woman who knows enough to 'intlu-
eEce" her husband to vote right, knows
enough to vote right herself
The University for the Higher Educa-
ton Of Women, at st. Petersburg. has
been closed by order of the Car
The women of Los Angeles, Cal, have
completed a large and commodious
"Woman's Home, . for dependent and de-
serving women.
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, is
going to build a Workingwomen's hotel
y few weeks ago he signed the woman
suffrage petition.
| Mrs. Rosenburg, of the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, is one of the
| best counterfeit detecters in the world.
/ She gets : 500 year.
In Wyoming, where women vote, the
law expressly provides that there shall
/ be no discrimination on account of sex in
the pay for any kind OF work
The W. c. T. t. of New Hampshire is
circulating a petition for the protection
OF women, which will be presented to the
Legislature at its meeting in June.
Nile. Maria Deraismes is said to he the
only woman treemason in France. She
Is good speaker, a tersc writer. and a
strong advocate of suffrage for women.
Frances Z. Wizards book, woman
and Temperance" is being translated in
to Japanese by Sho Nemoto, q billiant
young japanese student at Vermont Col
lege.
Miss Alice Il. Jordan, who took the de
gree of IL. ID. at the Yale law school
last June, has Just been admitted to
practise III the Superior Court of Mich
gan.
In England, single women and widows
have had full municipal suffrage for ei5h-
teen years. Mr. Gladstone says they ex-
ercise it "wthout detrment, and with
great advantage"
Mrs. Dora Saltcl has been elected May
or OF Argonla, Sumner County, Kan, by
Il larger majority tnan any other candi-
date ever received in that city. Her OPP
ponent was one of the leading citizens.
In Iowa tie average wages paid wolhen
school teachers are twenty seven dollars,
while men teachers receive thirty-two
each female teacher forty-tiyc dollars per
year.
Mrs. Marcel Talcott, of Chicago. has
established and maintains two day-nur-
series for the children of working women.
One thousand children on an average are
cared for in these nurseries every month.
The Springfield Republican SAYS of the
Kansas election: "Never has there been
SO clear demonstration that women will
vote, or that their vote when cast is on
the side of municipal purity and good
home Influences"
Mrs. Hendricks receives vast number
OF begging letters. Some of them ask
for autographs or photographs of her
dead husband. one woman, on the
ground that she is the mother OF triplets,
writes for money to buy COW.
Mrs. Elizabeth Illliard of Iowa. Mrs
Margaret Arnold, of Ohio and Mrs Su-
san Bailey, OF Dakota, are sisters The
first is u years OLD, the second 1863, and
the third 80, making a total OF BIZ Years
for these three remarkable women.
1t is said that women incline to favor
too severe legislation in the interests of
morality, while men are more apt to car
ry liberation to an undesirable extreme.
The natural inference would be that bv
letting both sexes vote, we should get
the golden mean.
Many California women cultivate fruit
! farms, themselves doing much of the
work, picking, packing, discriminating,
and canning fruit. CrystaIized figs and
apllcots are the products Of woman's la
Dor, as well as jellits jams, and MARINA
ladc, which are sent all over the world
The advocates Of women suffrage have
often publicly challenged is opponents
to lind two persons in AL Wyoming Ter
rtory who will assert, over their own
names and addresses that women sut-
trage there has had any bad results. The
opponents have hitherto failed to re-
spond
Mary Clemmer once entered into Il
contract to write a column day for three
years, on any subject assigned her She
never failed for a day to fulfil her task,
which included every sort of subject, from
book reviews and political articles to a
NoiiiiiN III tidN VI tIoilS lttl az Il pa I'uI ltS
the last year Of this contract She received
a salary of 81, 900.
The three great forces for the uplifting
OF society are religion, education, and
law. The least of these is the law, but
it is the register of the average opinion
OF the people. That average ought to in
clude the convictions of women. Until
women vote we do not have the highest
expression of religion and education
Rev. Henry W. Blanchard.
Mrs. George, wife of the celebrated
author of "Progress and Poverty" is a
woman of domestic tastes, devoted to her
husband and their four children She is
small, plump, CHEEKY woman, who never
gets down hearted, and people who know
them well say that but for her uniiagging
devotion and enthusiastic belief in him.
Henry George would never have been
able to come triumphantly through the
long period of stratened means and hard
work which preceded his success 1t is no
wonder that he believes in woman suf-
frage.
The organs of the liquor interest in
! Kansas declare that decent peOple are